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Search Again| Division: | Commercial Fish |
| Title: | ADF&G Statewide Rockfish Initiative: Strategic plan 2017-2020. |
| Author: | Howard, K. G., S. Campen, F. R. Bowers, R. E. Chadwick, J. W. Erickson, J. J. Hasbrouck, T. R. McKinley, J. Nichols, N. Nichols, A. Olson, J. Rumble, T. T. Taube, and B. Williams. |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries, Regional Information Report 5J19-05, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | Fifty years from today, black and yelloweye rockfish stocks will be healthy across the Gulf of Alaska. Alaskan fishery stakeholders today and 50 years from now will enjoy productive and sustainable fishing opportunities for black and yelloweye rockfishes because appropriate management decisions were made today to enable that present and future. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) recognizes the unique life history characteristics of rockfish species that make them particularly vulnerable to overfishing: the current lack of stock status information for many black and yelloweye rockfish stocks, the increasing fishing effort on black and yelloweye rockfishes throughout Alaska, and that multiple user groups harvest the same stocks of these species. ADF&G intends to maintain sustainable black and yelloweye rockfish fisheries throughout the state by following, to the extent practicable, management standards developed through the ADF&G Rockfish Initiative (Initiative) to achieve the following management priorities: 1. Manage all fisheries under an appropriate harvest level or harvest rate. 2. Maintain optimum spawning populations. 3. Maintain and sustain fishing opportunity through collaborative management between fishery divisions. |
| Keywords: | black rockfish; yelloweye rockfish; Gulf of Alaska; sustainable fisheries; fisheries management; overfishing; stock status; fishing effort; fishery harvest; Rockfish Initiative; strategic plan; management plan. |